Congrats on getting the light working! Must be a thrill. Always is for me.
Never thought you were being a smart-***. You are always very respectful.
Sharing pictures isn't really that hard. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but after you've done it a few times, it gets easier.
First, you need an account at some sharing site. There are many free options available. I tried Picasa and found it to be too much of a PITA. Not intuitive at all. I already had a dropbox account, so tried that. Eventually figured out the trick. Photobucket seems popular, and allows you to share multiple pictures in such a way that viewers can scroll through them. I haven't used it, so can't comment. YouTube links are also popular. Can't comment on that either, except that posting video seems really cool.
I'm sure others have easier/better/much more sophisticated methods, but here's what I do:
1. Take a good picture, and get the picture on my PC.
2. Open in MS Paint, crop to show just what's interesting. Re-size to no more than 800x800 pixels to meet forum rules. Save with a new name. I usually save as a JPG, which seems to be fine. If you really wanted the best picture possible, BMP format is it. It just takes more data.
3. Copy to Dropbox. Once it's there, right click and select "Share dropbox link". This copies a link (URL) to the picture into your clipboard.
4. Go to CPF and open a new post. Type some text, or not. Wherever you want to insert the picture, put the cursor there. Click "insert image". Hit ctl-v. This pastes the URL of your picture from your clipboard into the dialog box.
5. The trick to using Dropbox is that you have to change the URL. The part that says "www.dropbox.com" has to be changed to "dl.dropboxusercontent.com".
6. Click OK.
You're done! Photo should appear in your post editing window.